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Start with clarity
I begin with the problem, who it affects, and what good looks like — before features, roadmaps, or code. That keeps the team aligned and avoids building the wrong thing.
Product leadership · Technical execution · Spatial systems
Hello — I'mUmang
KalraThoughtfulproducts.Builtforreal-worldcomplexity.
I help founders turn ambiguity into thoughtful products that scale across users, teams, and real-world operations.
4+
years leading product and delivery
20+
products and systems shipped
5
regions served across teams and markets
Product environments where I have owned discovery to rollout, with equal focus on user value, system reliability, and operational fit.
Climate
Nature tech, compliance workflows, and field-grounded decisions
PropTech
Location intelligence and decision-ready search experiences
Commerce
Geo-enabled marketplaces, pricing logic, and self-serve delivery
APIs
Platform APIs, spatial pipelines, and integration ecosystems
Trusted by teams
Teams I've partnered with
From early-stage startups to established operators, across product, platform, and spatial system initiatives.
How I work
I don't start with code. I start with clarity.
Product management, technical leadership, and spatial intelligence — applied in plain steps so founders and teams can move from uncertainty to software that works in the real world.
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Users, workflows, and place
I learn how people actually work — including when location matters: sites, maps, regions, or field operations. Product decisions should reflect that reality, not assumptions.
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Plan the product and the system
I turn research into clear priorities, phased delivery, and a technical approach that can scale — from core product logic to map and data pipelines when the product needs them.
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Ship, learn, and lead delivery
I stay close to execution: working software early, honest feedback, and steady iteration. Product direction and technical leadership stay connected until the product is genuinely useful.
Execution stack
Platforms and tools I lead with.
From product planning to geospatial delivery, this is the toolkit behind strategy, build, and scale.
Backend
- Django
- Celery
- Flask
- Next.js
- Express
- RabbitMQ
Database & messaging
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- Redis
- Supabase
- RabbitMQ
Frontend
- React
- Tailwind CSS
DevOps & delivery
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Nginx
- Grafana
Cloud
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
- Vercel
Product management
- Miro
- ClickUp
- Asana
- Notion
- Linear
- Jira
- Figma
GIS & spatial
- GDAL
- GeoServer
- MapServer
- MapProxy
- QGIS
- Sentinel Hub
- Leaflet
- OpenLayers
- MapLibre
- GeoPandas
Global collaboration
Places I've built and learned with teams.
Product and platform work with teams across India, the US, the UK, Indonesia, and Germany — from early-stage builds to enterprise programs. Explore the globe, select a region below to focus, or scroll to zoom. Highlights show where that work happened.
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Featured work
Selected product systems.
End-to-end work across product strategy, technical execution, and operational scale.
200+ daily active users
Enterprise supplier compliance & deforestation monitoring
Led product and technical delivery for a confidential geospatial compliance platform used by global supply-chain teams — 24M+ hectares monitored, 200+ daily active users, and materially faster reporting operations.
DjangoPostGISReactAWSMaps
DAU
200+
Reporting cycle
~60% faster
Cloud cost
~20% lower
Monitored scope
24M+ ha
Outcomes
Established one trusted operating system for compliance: 200+ daily actives, faster reporting cycles, and lower cloud spend through architecture hardening.
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58,000+ neighborhoods · sub‑second ranking
Neighborhood intelligence & preference‑driven home search
Owned product strategy and engineering for a PropTech platform ranking 58,000+ neighborhoods against user priorities in sub-second time, combining market data with location intelligence.
DjangoPostGISReactNext.jsAWS
Launch window
1,000+ users
Index size
58,000+
Sales records
900,000+
Search latency
<1s
Outcomes
Drove early traction, strong activation, and reliable performance with sub-second ranking, high uptime, and a monetization model teams could operate confidently.
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10,000+ users · 100+ exports/day
National geospatial data marketplace & self‑serve exports
Led a country-scale geospatial marketplace where planners and operators could discover, price, and export standardized data through one map-first workflow.
FlaskPostGISReactAWSMaps
Registered users
10,000+
Daily exports
100+
Prep time
~70% faster
Repeat usage
90%+
Outcomes
Built a durable AOI-to-delivery product flow with high repeat usage, secure transactions, and automated exports that reduced operational friction for data teams.
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~90% smaller models · ~3.5× faster inference
Edge environmental & fire intelligence — ML optimization and Earth‑observation validation
Partnered with a deep-tech team to optimize an edge AI environmental intelligence stack, combining model compression, sensor stabilization, and satellite validation for field-ready reliability.
PyTorchStructured pruningINT8 / INT4NASA FIRMSGOES‑16 ABIVIIRSQGIS
Model compression
~90%
Inference speedup
~3.5×
Quantization
INT8 / INT4
EO products
VIIRS + GOES‑16
Outcomes
Delivered major model efficiency gains and more stable field behavior, with a defensible multi-source validation workflow for safety- and climate-critical operations.
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What teams say.
“Umang brought strong product ownership from day one. He understood the business context quickly, translated it into a clear execution path, and delivered with consistency. Communication was thoughtful, proactive, and easy to trust.”
Fazly Noor
Marketing Manager, Inovasi Digital
“Working with Umang was straightforward and high-value. He combined product thinking with technical depth to deliver a robust platform and a practical admin workflow our team could run confidently. Professional, dependable, and outcome-focused throughout.”
Scott Urban
Co-Founder, Oxford Scientia
Let's de-risk your next product move.
If you are navigating product uncertainty, spatial complexity, or operational scale, I can help translate it into a clear plan and focused execution.